Provost Diversity Fellow: Taylor B. Alarcon

Taylor B. Alarcon, PhD candidate

Department and School
Sociology, Arts & Sciences

Bio
Taylor B. Alarcon is a Ph.D. Student, Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow, and Provost Diversity Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. His primary research interests explore the relationship between innovation and equity; more specifically, he is interested in the ways science, technology, and data intersect with urban inequality, housing, neighborhoods, crime, and policing. He is particularly interested in quantitative and computational methods, including machine learning, causal inference, social network analysis, text analysis, and spatial data science.

Prior to Columbia, Taylor was an IRT Fellow, a research contributor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University and the Information Sciences Institute at University of Southern California, and a product design leader at companies like Adobe and Instagram. He graduated from Brown University in 2017 with a degree in Applied Mathematics and is a proud Chicago native.

Advisor
Gerard Torrats-Espinosa, Assistant Professor in Sociology at Columbia University and a member of the Data Science Institute

Favorite self-care ritual
Daily meditation

Recommended book
A Choice of Weapons by Gordon Parks

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